Retouching

• Youneeda headandshoulderstype portrait to work with(preferred).

• You should be looking mostly at the camera

Portrait RetouchingCamera - Bridge/Lightroom - Photoshop

Raw File Adjustments in ACR or Lightroom

LiquefySkin smoothing ContrastStray Hairs

Another retouching example

Retouching techniques for today

• Liquefy Tools

• Blemish removal (demoed )

• Wrinkle smoothing or removal (Healing and Cloning)

• Stray hair removal (Cloning)

• Teeth whitening (Hue/Saturation)

• Skin smoothing

• For your assignment, use 2 of the 6 techniques here

Liquefy

tools• We’ll deal mostly with the Warp tool

and the Freeze tool

• Warp(w) moves pixelsaround

• Freeze(f) (and Thaw) help youmask off what doesn’t getaffected

When to useLiquefy

• Minimize bulges

• Double chins

• Rumpled clothing…

• Reducefeatures enhanced bywide angle lens

Morerealistic use, but not foreveryday…

Recently…

The Liquefy Editing Space• Hitting Cmd+Shift+X or choosing Filter

->Liquefy… gets you in the Liquefy editing space

• Always work on a copy of your layer

• Warp pushes the pixels around

• Freeze protects areas you want unchanged

• Thaw “unfreezes” that area, in case you want to then Warp it

• Check and uncheck the Show Mask

box to see frozen and unfrozen areas

• Use a bigger brush than you might expect to move things around

Liquefy forclothing…

• Video recap of using Liquefy to smooth and redefine lines in clothing: https://youtu.be/ clwOlbRRQx8

Wrinkle smoothing, blemish removal

• Healing brush is best for blemishes

• Forwrinkles, Healing brush orClone stamp set to Lightenmode works best

• Always work on a new layer

• Makesureyour HealingBrush isaffectingall layers

• Videodemo: https://youtu.be/1TWuPEakKg4

MainWorkflow• Create a new layer

• Select your Healing brush(affectall layers)

• Clonefrom a nearby area ofskin (option-click) that issmooth orblemish free

• Brushonto area to be concealed

• Reducetheopacity of your layertobringback some of theoriginal texture (unless it’sacne)

Teeth Whitening• Most people’s teeth are more

yellow than they’d like

• We’ll use the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer to affect the Yellows, and sometimes the Reds

• Will have to mask off the areas we don’t want affected

• Be careful not to completely desaturate the teeth or

• over-brighten them... which becomes fake

• recap: https://youtu.be/LlSdbmZ7K0o

FixingBlotchy Skin

• Redness is usually what we’re out to fix here, but yellowness is often a consideration, too

• Most of the work is done in a Hue/Saturation layer

where we try to isolate the redness from the other skin tones

Red Skinfixes…• Create a new

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer

• Move down to the Reds (Option-3) to start isolating the Reds

• Use the “+ Eyedropper” Tool to hone in on reds, then use the “- Eyedropper” Tool to

protect the area of skin you don’t want to change

Red SkinFixes…• Drag your Hue slider all

the way to the left to exaggerate the skin colours

• The most vivid blue areas will be the areas most affected

• The more purple areas show where your adjustment will have some effect, but much

less than the vivid blue areas

• We will then hone in even further to isolate the red area

Red SkinFixes…• Drag the special targeting

tool to the right to narrow your range of red

• Watch as less of the skin is affected

• Once you’re satisfied with what will be affected, slide the Hue slider back to zero, and then start moving it to the right

• Redness will move to the yellows, and adjust to taste

Select the reddestpart in the

image withthe

✛ Eyedropper tool

Dragtherightmost slider tonarrow the range of redthatyou’ll be affecting

Red SkinFixes…• In this case, the Hue

slider was dragged to +14 due to major sunburn

• Remember to mask off effect from lips or anything else that is red in the image that might be affected

• Video recap: http://youtu.be/ 6Xu3c0KKhT4

SofteningSkin• Great for evening out

blotchy or shiny skin

• Usually a final stage, once you’ve removed blemishes and softened wrinkles

• Many different ways to smooth out skin, each has advantages and disadvantages

• Numbers, settings are dependent on how much skin is at the forefront of the image

Stepstoskinsoftening

• Copy everything you’ve done to your image so far up to its own layer by selecting the top layer and hit Cmd+Option+Shift+E

• Repeat the same shortcut again to make another copy Cmd+Option+Shift+E. Name this topmost layer something like "Blur"

• Making sure the top, "Blur" layer is selected, go to Filter -

> Blur-> Surface Blur. In the case of our image, choose Radius of 39 and Threshold of 31

• Also make sure your blurred layer is set to 50% Opacity

• But first, a word on blurring…

KindsofBlur…

No Blur Gaussian Blur, Radius 39 blurs

“everything”

Surface Blur, with similar settings, respects edges but blurs inside each area

Surface BlurSettings

• Radius: The higher the Radius value, the more blurring gets applied

• Threshold: A value of zero means next to no blurring will get applied. Photoshop will think everything is an edge and will not identify any common areas to blur.

• Increase the Threshold value to start seeing an effect but stop before your true edges start to blend with each other

HighPass Filter• You'll remember that we

made 2 copies of our "up-flattened" layers

• The other, non-blurred layer should be called something like "Texture"

• Run a High Pass filter on this Texture layer, usually to a value between 4 and 5. Your layer will look gray-ish and bumpy

• You will then set the blending mode of this layer to Soft Light

Put your layers in a Group folder

• The next thing we want to make sure of is our Texture layer is above our Blur layer

• Shift-select your 2 layers, and then hit the Group

Group

icon in your layers palette

Add a mask to your group

• We then want to add a mask pre-filled with black to it, so hold the Option or Alt(PC) key and hit the Add Layer Mask icon in your layers palette

• We next want to brush back in to our black mask

(using white) to apply the skin blurring effect only where we want it

To get this view, hit the"\" key

blackandwhitemask view

• Video Recap: http://youtu.be/ 8vZJ9uYQxAQ

• (recap is a little different, uses a more complicated

method of masking, but is overall the same technique)

To get this view, Option-click in your mask's thumbnail

Stray Hairs• Clone Stamp, rather than

Healing Brush, is your best tool

• Against lighter backgrounds, set your Clone Stamp to Lighten mode, but will depend on case by case

• Always work on a new layer

• Use Polygonal Lasso tool to outline around

person's head to protect it, then use Clone Stamp tool to cover up fly- aways

Exception for Stray Hairs• Use theHealing Brush (instead of

CloneStamp) for hairsthat areagainst skin that needtobe cleaned

up (usually forehead area)

• In other words, if thebackground has texture, you’re probably

better off withthe Healingbrushes